Company Profile
Company Overview
Headquartered in St. Paul Minnesota with branches in Crystal and Shakopee, Prescription Landscape serves discerning commercial clients across the entire metro. We specialize in land care to include construction, snow and ice management, grounds maintenance, and water management. We bring extensive experience and professionalism to every client and customize our support to your individual needs and concerns.
Our team is certified and credentialed. Prescription Landscape puts a priority on working in close alignment with current horticulture practices, advanced land care technology and respected professional organizations - all to deliver you the exceptional advice that will result in sustainable, healthy, and beautiful landscapes.
Company History
Colin O'Neill founded Prescription Landscape in 1980. The name is rooted in Colin's horticulture degree and his vision for healthy land management practices. Enlisting Michael Teichert as a partner one year later, the two officially embarked on building a business enterprise. With their attention to detailed service and budget conscious buyers, Colin and Mike attracted commercial property managers. They led industry standards for good paying jobs with benefits and ethical land and water practices. Prescription Landscape grew steadily in the St. Paul market, the site of the first business campus. The company is now a three-branch operation serving the entire metro from St. Paul, Crystal, and Shakopee locations. In 2003, Colin hired Ryan Foudray and in 2012, Mike Teichert retired and Ryan became CEO/COO and partner.
Colin continued as Prescription's managing partner and finance and business consultant but, in pursuit of his boating passion, Colin moved to Fernandina Beach, Florida. Quite unexpectedly, Colin was diagnosed with an extremely rare and untreatable gallbladder cancer in December 2015 and died in April 2016.
Ryan formed a business partnership with Colin's spouse, Paulita LaPlante, and together they are carrying on Prescription Landscape's uniquely Minnesota legacy of industry professionalism, employee engagement and environmental stewardship and doing so as a woman-owned business enterprise. Their first step in the process was to develop new strategic plans focused on expanding service lines and growing the core business. As a result, they acquired the outdoor services division from Arteka Companies in June 2017. One year later, Ryan and Paulita hired the senior leadership of Arteka's landscape construction business. With this expansion, Prescription Landscape now offers clients a complete menu of commercial landscape services from project design and installation to property landscape, maintenance, and snow and ice management services. This bolsters Prescription Landscape's ability to serve a larger range of clients, including construction companies involved in new commercial real estate development in the Twin Cities and Upper Midwest.
With continued growth in their plans, Paulita and Ryan are working to build a bright future for their employees and the landscape management and construction industry in Minnesota.
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